Marketing 1 Marketing – an organizational function and a set of processes for creating, capturing, communicating, and delivering value to customers and for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the organization and its stakeholders • Creating value o Production-Oriented Era – manufacturers were more concerned with product innovation, not with satisfying the needs of individual consumers and retail stores were considered places to hold the merchandise until a consumer wanted it
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Chapter 1 Introduction to Strategy * Strategy: Theory of how to gain competitive advantages. (How competition is going to evolve, and how that evolution can be exploited for competitive advantage.) Based on knowledge of the marketplace and based on the firm’s capabilities and resources. a) Being different from your rivals b) Creating value while containing costs c) Deciding what to do and what NOT to do d) Combining activities to land in a unique market position
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24, 2016 Price as of 03/24/2016 Idexx Laboratories Inc. $75.59 Consolidated Issue Listed on NASDAQ Global Select Market: IDXX HOLD We project that IDEXX will perform in line with the market over the next 6 to 12 months. This projection is based on our analysis of three key factors that influence common stock performance: earnings strength, relative valuation, and recent price movement. Reiteration 3/24/16 Previous Rating Buy (9/27/14 - 10/03/14) 52-Week Price Range $61
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Finance Examination Chapter 1 Discussion Questions and Solutions 3. In a corporation, what group has the ultimate responsibility for protecting and managing stockholder’s interests? A corporation’s top management has the ultimate responsibility of protecting and managing stockholder’s interests. There are essentially two groups responsible for protecting and managing the interests of stockholders being the Board of Directors and the top Management Team. However, the ultimately responsibility
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PART I THE VALUATION OF BLUESCOPE FOR THE RESTRUCTURE 1. Historical Financial Performance According to BlueScope Steel Limited consolidated financial headlines, the total revenue of BlueScope kept slightly increasing from 2003 to 2008. However, there is a significant fluctuation of revenue in recent three years. As a result, the EBIT and NPAT suffered a tremendous decrease from 2008 to 2009. And BlueScope generated its first loss (YR 2009) on NPAT shown negative A$66 million which is caused by the
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72–82 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Hospitality Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhosman Impacts of positive and negative corporate social responsibility activities on company performance in the hospitality industry Kyung Ho Kang a,*, Seoki Lee b,1, Chang Huh c,2 a School of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Temple University, 1700 North Broad St., Suite 201, Philadelphia, PA 19122, United States School of Tourism and Hospitality
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years, or with the percentages of other similar companies. Changes in the gross profit percentage ratio can be caused by a number of factors. For example, a decrease may indicate greater competition in the market and therefore lower selling prices and a lower gross profit or, alternatively, an increase in the cost of purchases. An increase in the gross profit percentage may indicate that
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communication between purchasing and other departments within the organization. Also, suppliers were usually selected based on price and availability only. However, purchasing management has undergone a great change since 1960s. Organizations began to realize that purchasing can become a profit-making activity rather than just a profit-taking activity. A study performed by Carr and Pearson (2002) shows that purchasing management has a positive impact on the organization’s financial performance, no matter
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Chapter 8 Valuation of Company Shares: Earnings Based Methods The objectives of this chapter are to present the earnings based methods of share valuation, to critically appraise the available empirical evidence, and to provide examples of the problems, issues and limitations of share valuation. Chapter Outline • Overview of the relationship between earnings and value. • Compounding versus Discounting • Long Event Windows and Discounted/Compounded
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Chapter 8 Valuation of Company Shares: Earnings Based Methods The objectives of this chapter are to present the earnings based methods of share valuation, to critically appraise the available empirical evidence, and to provide examples of the problems, issues and limitations of share valuation. Chapter Outline • Overview of the relationship between earnings and value. • Compounding versus Discounting • Long Event Windows and Discounted/Compounded
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